Re: [PATCH 1/5] winmm: Improve MCI's Sysinfo command.

[Eric Pouech]

[e-mail] a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Eric Pouech wrote:
> > did you test the 16 => 32 bit conversion for the MCI_ALL_DEVICE ?
>
> It's good you asked.  Upon closer inspection, MCI_Sysinfo appears to
> behave differently.  I'd say it's even a bug in MS that setting
> SYSINFO_PARMS.wDeviceType = MCI_ALL_DEVICE_ID is not recognized! Only
> sendCommand(MCI_ALL_DEVICE_ID, MCI_SYSINFO ...) appears usable to
> obtain the functionality of "sysinfo all ..." :-(
>
> I'll supersede the patch ASAP.
> Grr, that's not going to simplify the parser.
>
> Regards,
>  Jögr Höhle

but does

SYSINFO_PARMS.wDeviceType = (WORD)(DWORD)MCI_ALL_DEVICE_ID;
work better ?
if yes, I'd be convinced for a bug in native winmm, missing a (WORD) cast somewhere...
A+